For its Raymond
Carver Short Story Contest judged by Susan Perabo, Carve
seeks short fiction of up to 10K words. Winners will be published
in Fall 2018 issue and read by three literary agents.

Washington
Printmakers Gallery is hosting a National Small
Works Competition and Exhibition.

Petrichor
Audio Magazine is seeking previously published
fiction stories (reprints) to produce
into audio and publish on its newly launched platform.
Editors also accept audio submissions but encourage authors to
take advantage of their free Audible-approved professional
narration and studio-quality production.

The
Canadian Women Artists’ Award, facilitated by NYFA, is
a $5,000 grant designed to provide financial support to an
emerging or early career woman artist working in any discipline.

Speaking of rejections, these folks made our top five in April—no
guts, no glory. They amassed 69 no-thank-yous as a group. Big
bravos go to:

Warren Paul Glover

Diane G. Martin

MFC Feeley

Thomas O'Dell

Paulie Lipman

Join us with your May numbers
beginning June 1, when our submission form will open on this
page. We'll also send reminders. Until then,
Submittable salutes you.

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'In 1922, the Newberry Library acquired this collection
of 160 drawings, attributed to 'Sioux Indians' living in Fort
Yates, which serves as headquarters of the Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe' (Hyperallergic).

A roundtable on Marvel-fatigue,
All-Stars, meta-narrative, post-narrative, and layering (The New Republic).

For its second Untold
Story Award,
Narratively seeksbig, award-winning
feature stories, ones that require more time and a bigger budget
than most, and illuminate people and communities that would
otherwise go unnoticed or uncelebrated.

MTA Arts
& Design seeks artists for a new permanent Percent
for Art project, in conjunction with renovation of
White Plains Station in Westchester, to be fabricated in durable
materials such as mosaic and glass.

NXTHVN
artist fellowships
in New Haven provide dedicated work space, a stipend, a
professional development curriculum, and mentorship
opportunities.

The winner of SmokeLong
Quarterly’s inaugural Award
for Flash Fiction will receive $1500, publication,
automatic nomination for The Best Small Fictions series, the
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and more.

Upstream
Gallery seeks works
on paper for 'The Inventive Eye: Observation,
Transformation, and the Art of Seeing.'

What We're Reading:

The book is
a bit like Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, but it takes place
30 years later in Western Montana. It's a really good read so
far. Henderson's descriptions of small-town poverty in 1980
Montana aren't that far off from what you might encounter in poor
Montana towns today. The characters and their relationships feel
so familiar.

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The
Relentless Award from The American Playwriting Foundation
is the largest annual cash prize in American theater awarded to a
playwright in recognition of a new play.

Don Share, Nicole Sealey, and Matthew Zapruder will collaborate
to choose one winning poem, and two runner-ups for Frontier Poetry’sIndustry
Prize.

The
Jerome Foundation is hosting a new Artist
Fellowship program that offers flexible, two-year
grants to support the creative development of early-career
generative artists in the state of Minnesota and the five
boroughs of New York City.

The
Kennedy CenterInternship
Program is a holistic and rigorous professional
development program designed to elevate the next generation of
leaders in the arts, cultural, and non-profit fields.

What We're Listening To:

This week's Submishmash Weekly Spotify
playlist contains a new song from The Essex Green,
‘Sloane Ranger,’ off of their upcoming album, ‘Hardly
Electronic.’ The album will be released June 29th on
Merge Records, and is their first album since 2006’s ‘Cannibal
Sea.’ Customer Experience Team member Sasha Bell
is one of the band's cofounders.

What We're Reading:

I’m a bit
late to the party on this one, but so grateful I finally got
around to reading 'Wild.' Reeling from the death of her mother, a
broken marriage, and a heap of other heartaches, Cheryl Strayed
sets out to hike the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) on her own. This
is an honest and insightful story about love, loss, and how we
wrestle with pain. Strayed shares her story with humor,
sincerity, and courage — a great read and an even more inspiring
journey.

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Short of
the Week seeks films
of 40 minutes or less—the average featured film is 10 minutes.

For The
2nd Half, an open-themed show, Las Laguna Gallery
seeks original artwork from artists 50 and older.

There's still time to send Submittable
your Submittable-themed poems—check out some early entries here.

The
Whiting Foundation welcomes works of history,
cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, the sciences,
philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, and personal
essays, among other categories, for its Creative
Nonfiction Grant.

For its themed issue, ‘Roots,’
WraparoundSouth
has extended submission calls for fiction and
creative nonfiction. Editors seek work about traditions, culture,
history, family, and interpretations of roots as they
pertain to the American South.

Brooklyn
Arts Council is consdering visual, literary,
media, performance art, and more for Nou
La - We Reach!, an interactive exhibition narrating
the story of the Caribbean presence in Brooklyn.

What We're Reading:

Sales
Development Representative Emily
Dubrawski cameacross America
The Great Cookbook by Joe Yonan in a
kitchen supply shop during a recent trip:

This
cookbook is collection of recipes from some of America's greatest
living chefs. It’s along the lines of Chef’s
Tableon
Netflix,
but with a patriotic twist! Each chef is featured with a short
quote about their recipe or what they think 'American cuisine'
truly is. The recipes range from traditional comfort food to
out-of-the-box creative endeavors and are documented with
beautiful photography. I have cooked up a few of the recipes and
am looking forward to exploring even more!

What We're Listening To:

Enjoy 50 specially-selected tracks that make
up each week's Submishmash Weekly Playlist, plus check out recent
themed-lists, with more to come.

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New York’s Sag
Harbor Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference is
now accepting applications for a small and focused nonfiction writing
conference for 16 writers in November.

Burning
Man Project seeks proposals from artists,
designers, architects, or teams for the creation of an Anchor
Artwork for the Charleston East plaza in Mountain
View, CA, where Google’s new campus will be located. The budget
for this Anchor Artwork is $750,000.

Under a
Warm Green Linden is an online
journal with a twofold mission: to publish and foster
excellent poetry, and to give a portion of its proceeds to
reforestation efforts.

The Artists’
Community Administrator Residency from the Rauschenberg
Foundation is designed to provide creative time
and space for practicing artists of all disciplines who are also
staff members of an artists’ community.

San
Francisco State’s School of Cinema has open Assistant
Professorships and opportunities for Adjunct Lecturers
in Film.

What We're Reading:

As part of Submittable's
first-ever book club, five Submittable team
members read Reset,
Ellen Pao's account of suing a Silicon Valley powerhouse for
gender discrimination. Here are some thoughts from the group's
coordinator (and Customer Experience superstar), Genevieve Crow:

My favorite
thing about this selection was how Pao's story opened up
dialogues on very relevant themes. Teammates (including our CEO)
shared reactions to the trial's outcome, experiences around
workplace discrimination, and ideas for creating spaces where
underrepresented groups aren't just present but able to thrive.
We talked about initiatives Submittable is working on and
brainstormed ways we could do more, as a company and as individuals.
I left feeling grateful to be a part of an organization where
these kinds of conversations happen.

For next month, ten team members are planning to readWest
With The
Night by Beryl Markham, the first person
to fly across the Atlantic east to west in a non-stop, solo
flight.

What We're Listening To:

Back to our regularly scheduled program: a
new Submishmash
Weekly playlist on
Spotify!

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C&R
Press hosts an annual Soup
Bowl Winter Chapbook Competition. The press is also
open for full-length manuscripts in all categories: novels,
poetry, short story collections, creative non-fiction, memoir,
experimental and hybrid work.

Time to get morbid. For its Killer
Flash contest, The
Molotov Cocktail seeks stories that involve some
form of death.

Woman
Made Gallery’sWordplay
exhibit serves to highlight the voice of all female-identified
artists who use text and image or text as image as a means of
creative expression.

The
Detroit Heritage Play Festival, presented by Casa Blanca
Consultants, is open to playwrights of all ages,
living in Detroit now, or in the past, or elsewhere with a
connection to, or interest in, Detroit. Stories can be
historical, fictional, or visionary.

What We're Listening To:

Submittable's main muse Sasha Bell
from the Customer Experience Team created this week's Spotify
playlist, 'Sasha's
Brain.' Here's how she described it:

These are a few songs to get
some of us through the late doldrums of Winter. It includes some
new discoveries and some favorite oldies. Enjoy tracks by
Destroyer, Sonny and the Sunsets, Anne Murray, and
more.

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About Me

I am a writer who is looking to expand on the articles, poems, short stories and reviews I have had published and the plays and radio plays I have had performed. I am actively seeking a position in the creative industry whilst continuing to write novels, plays, poems and scripts.